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Jul 29, 2008 at 12:01 AM

MU football nears ticket sales record

As of yesterday afternoon, Missouri had sold nearly 34,000 season tickets for the upcoming football season, surpassing last year's total of 33,350, team spokesman Chad Moller said. Missouri's single-season record for season-ticket sales - just more than 34,000 - occurred in 2004, when the Tigers were coming off their first bowl season under Gary Pinkel. MU officials expect to soon eclipse that mark, Moller said.

Missouri expects to sell a significant amount of student-ticket packages when students return to campus next month. Moller said if students purchase the same number of tickets they did last season, MU projects surpassing 37,000 total season-ticket sales - and that's not including additional public season-ticket sales.

"Factoring all of that together," Moller said, "we're feeling good about reaching our goal of 38,000 and certainly hoping for more."

Missouri plays six games in Columbia this season, starting with Southeast Missouri State on Sept. 6. Missouri begins the season Aug. 30 against Illinois in St. Louis, which officially became a sellout last week.

Jamison hits hole-in-one

Delora Jamison hit a hole-in-one yesterday at the Country Club of Missouri. Jamison used a 6-hybrid to ace the 101-yard 15th hole. Brian Jamison and Richard Liebman witnessed the shot.

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